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MNOLD DANIEL, or time u UTTJENBH WE Y llflElPlTHOlO UJE PRODUCING CARMEL.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ARNOLD DANIEL, a subject of the King of lttoumania, residing at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, in the German Empire, have invented a new and lmproved Method of Producing Caramel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved method of producing caramel, which consists in heating carbohydrates, prelerably starch, syrup, grape-sugar (glucose), truitsugar, beet-root sugar, milk-sugar, molasses used, as tar as the same are not able to paralyze or abolish the action of the acetic acid. The acetic acid and the water eliminating means may be used in any desired proportion; however, the tinctorial power or the obtained caramel is the smaller the lower are the quantities 0t acetic acid and water eliminating means employed in carrying out the method forming the object of the present invention.

My improved method may for instancebe performed in the following ways, either in an open vessel with or without a reflux.- cooler or in a closed vessel while using pressure, as the worlrin conditions shall render it preferable in eac case.

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lln an enameled iron vessel provided with a reflux-cooler are dissolved in a solution ol 10 kilogr. of acetic acid (99%) and 10 kilogr. cl acetate of sodium freed from water 100 kilogr. oil beetroot sugar in a water-tree condition and the resulting soluspecification of Letters latent.

under pressure.

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application area August 1L1, lair. serial no. mama.

The time necessary for the reaction may be shortened by heating the solution under superatmospheric 0 pressure.

If no cooler be used, an addition of tree acetic acid is superfluous.

llf desired, the caramelizing process may also be performed by heating the carbohydrates, with acetate oil sodium alone, since on melting the carbohydrate, organic acids are formed by the decomposition oil the carbohydrate, so that said organic acids liberate a part of the acetic acid from the acetate of sodium.

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100 kilogr. of beet-root sugar are melted in an iron vessel, then 10 to 20 kilogr. of acetate of sodium are added, while intermixing the mass. The melting emperaturc varies between 160 and 170 ti. its soon as the desired coloration oi the produced caramel is attained, the reaction is interrupted by addition of water.

The caramel obtained in the described manner is easily soluble in water and alcohol and colors rum, brandy and liquors without any dulling tam'n place.

Havin thus fully descrfied my invention, what I c aim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is p 1 1. The herein described method ct producing caramel, which consists in heating a caramelizable carbohydrate with acetic acid. 2. A method of producing caramel, which consists in heatin a caramelizable carbohydrate with acetic acid in a closed vessel 3. A processof producing caramel which comprises heating a caramelizable carbohydrate with acetic acid and a dehydrating agent.

4:. A process of producing caramel which consists in heating a caramelizable carbo hydrate with acetic acid and an acetate.

5. A method oil producing caramel which consists in heatlng a caramelizable car-ho Ill till

lldll llltl consists in heating beet-root sugar with acetic acid in a closed vessel under pressure.

9. A process of producing caramel which comprises heating beet-root sugar with acetic acid and a dehydrating agent.

10. A process of producing caramel which consists in heating beet-root sugar with acetic acid and an acetate.

11. A method of producing caramel which consists in heating beet-root sugar with acetic acid and sodium acetate.

emme 12. The method of producing caramel, which consists in heating together a solution of beet-root sugar, acetic acid and sodium acetate in .a closed vessel, while under pressure, and precipitating the caramel from the reaction product by adding sodium carbonate thereto.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ARNOLD DANIEL. 

